Continuing the expeditions of Jeff MacNelly, James Kilpatrick, and Eugene McCarthy, with apologies.

The Leaker

The Leaker just can’t help it, so it seems. Bequeathed with a mind full of valuable, extraneous information, set upon by a ravenous pack of info hounds, the Leaker does what it must: it leaks. Sponge-like and cheese-holed, its life cycle is the rhythmic taking on of information and subsequent discharge of same, all to a fetishized following of pilot-fishing scribblers whose living depends on this arrangement. Bigger beasts attempting to interrupt the Leaker’s cycle have been vexed through the ages – the leaker is of a perfect, if to some, somewhat nefarious design. Regardless of sanction, reassignment, book advance, or exclusive interview with pre-approved lines of inquiry, it does what it is designed to do, and the drip, drip of info feeds the greater ecosphere around it. In this way the Leaker may be one of the most generous and essential creatures in the bestiary. It gives out as much as it takes in, often to the accrual of beneficiaries far-flung and unaware.

-Danny Grosso